Border Patrol responds to overcrowding situation

LAREDO, TEXAS (KGNS) - Border Patrol is now responding to the overcrowding situation at one of their detention centers.

We spoke today with Border Patrol commander Robert Harris who says Laredo sector is currently detaining about 100 immigrants a day, and receiving approximately 400 immigrants a day from the Rio Grande Valley due to their overcrowding.

Tonight on KGNS News at Six, reporter Christian von Preysing gives us more on this story.

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